Chapter 76: Final Exams

"Teacher Wu, don't worry! With me here, we'll definitely walk away with full rewards this time."

Gu You confidently patted his chest. Honestly, even if a true nine-ringed Title Douluo showed up, he wouldn't be afraid — at least not if he tapped into his divine power.

"Three days from now, you'll enter the spirit ascension platform. I'm giving you these three days off — relax a little, but also get yourselves prepared."

Days off?

Wu Zhangkong's words stunned the group. Ever since joining Zero Class, aside from their regular weekly break, they'd never had any extra time off.

Three whole days?

Xie Xie and Zhang Yangzi were the first to cheer excitedly.

Gu You, however, wore a thoughtful expression. Three days — what should he do with them? Just training the whole time sounded boring. He'd only just received his hundred million Federation coins not long ago, but that also meant he no longer had the rights to his song. Maybe it was time to check out some auctions or high-end markets, see if he could pick up anything useful.

"Gu You, what are you thinking about? What are you planning for these three days? Why don't we all go out and have some fun?" Xie Xie grinned as he jogged over.

"Go out and play? Play what?" Zhang Yangzi poked his head in curiously.

Xie Xie rolled his eyes. "I wasn't talking to you!"

Zhang Yangzi laughed. "Come on, I'll pay! Just take me along, yeah?"

"Sure, just don't flake on us this time. Last time you bailed, you became 'Runaway Brother.'" Gu You smirked, deciding that with someone leading the fun, maybe the auctions could wait. Better to save up some more cash first — he could hit the big events later when the truly rare items showed up. Besides, the Federation Bank paid a 0.5% interest rate. Small, sure, but with how much money he had, it still added up.

Xie Xie waved his arms. "Hey! I didn't bail last time on purpose! And if Zhang Yangzi's paying, well, that's a whole different story!"

Suddenly, Xie Xie clapped his hands together. "Oh right, I just remembered — Teacher Wu said we have two parts for our final exams. The spirit ascension platform is only one. What do you think the second part is?"

The group paused, frowning in confusion.

No one seemed to have any idea.

Gu You just stayed silent, smiling faintly.

Wang Jinxi gave a bitter smile. "The violent-phase spirit ascension platform is honestly an amazing chance for us to improve. But don't you think it's a little early for us? I've heard the competition during the violent phase is brutal. There's no such thing as mercy in there — after all, chances to evolve your soul spirit don't come around often."

Tang Wulin furrowed his brow, resting a hand on his forehead. "We've been getting so many opportunities to enter the platform lately. The academy is putting in an incredible amount of effort and resources just to help us improve. I think their goal is clear — they want us to graduate from the junior division with thousand-year soul spirits. Have any of you ever calculated the level of your current soul spirits?"

At his words, the group stopped walking almost in unison.

A thousand-year soul spirit — what would that even mean?

A thousand-year soul ring for the first soul skill. Even without comparing to Gu You, that kind of advancement was something one in ten thousand soul masters might never achieve.

A first soul spirit at the thousand-year level would provide two soul skills, massively reducing the mental strain required. It would also make it much easier to fuse another thousand-year soul spirit later, meaning you could progress all the way to four rings without worrying about lacking soul rings.

One of the biggest obstacles holding soul masters back from advancing to the higher levels was simply the number of soul spirits they could handle. A human's spiritual power could only support so much.

Without the right level of spiritual cultivation, fusing a soul spirit would inevitably fail. That was why Wu Zhangkong placed so much emphasis on their spiritual growth.

Over the course of thousands of years of soul master evolution and soul spirit fusion, the major soul master organizations had, three thousand years ago, formalized the relationship between soul master levels and how many soul spirits they could bear.

Spirit Origin Realm: The starting point — the innate spiritual level every human was born with. At this level, you could support yellow-grade or lower soul spirits.

Spirit Connection Realm: Mind and spirit aligned, thought reaches intention. At this stage, you could truly begin to control and harness your spiritual power, allowing you to bear either two yellow-grade soul spirits or one purple-grade soul spirit.

Spirit Sea Realm: The mind like a vast ocean, boundless and deep. This high-level spiritual strength was the foundation for becoming a true expert. Whether peak mecha masters or peak soul masters, reaching this level was essential. Here, you could support up to five yellow-grade soul spirits, three purple-grade soul spirits, or one black-grade soul spirit.

Spirit Abyss Realm: As deep as an abyss, spanning heaven and earth. At this level, your spiritual power reached a legendary state. It was the necessary foundation for hosting the most rare and powerful soul spirits. You could fuse any grade of soul spirit — orange, red — but only one of those top-tier spirits. Beyond that, you could still host up to five lower-grade soul spirits, with no limit on their quality. Normally, Spirit Abyss Realm was the absolute limit of human spiritual capacity.

The reason Gu You's spiritual power had already reached this stage was precisely because of his absurd, cheat-like ability to host soul beasts directly in his mind and absorb their power, letting them grow over time and massively boosting his spiritual force.

Spirit Domain Realm: Awareness forms a domain, creating an inner world. Spirit and awareness merge into a personal realm, able to host anything within the limits of spiritual power. Theoretically, the upper limit was nine soul spirits. According to legend, the founder of the Spirit Pagoda, the Soul Spirit Originator, the legendary powerhouse known as the Ice Spirit Douluo, had once reached this level.

Divine Origin Realm: Awareness transforms into divinity, original essence takes form. At this point, spiritual power became divine soul force — this was the realm of the gods. Where thought reached, heaven and earth responded. Reaching this level, one was considered a demigod. Even divine thrones were no longer out of reach.

For the average soul master, only the first four realms really mattered. The Spirit Domain and Divine Origin realms were the exclusive domain of pure spiritual-attribute soul masters, the kind of figures most would never even dare to dream about.

The Spirit Origin Realm was innate. Reaching Spirit Connection, with a spiritual power of one hundred, wasn't too difficult. But advancing from Spirit Connection to Spirit Sea — that was a chasm, a true divide. The vast majority of soul masters would never cross it in their lifetime.

Spirit Sea Realm required a spiritual power of five hundred.

Spirit Abyss Realm required five thousand.

Spirit Domain Realm required twenty thousand.

And the terrifying Divine Origin Realm required fifty thousand.

It was said there might even be a realm beyond that — the legendary Divine King Realm — but that was completely beyond anything they could comprehend at their current level.

Among the six of them, Gu Yue was the most likely to reach the Spirit Sea Realm in the future. Only by attaining that level could one even hope to cultivate to nine rings — assuming all nine soul rings were under the thousand-year mark.

Of the remaining five, only Tang Wulin had currently reached the Spirit Connection Realm. As for Gu You, no one really knew where he stood. The other three were hovering near Spirit Connection, close but not quite there yet.

Still, given their talent and their youth, as long as they had the right resources, all of them stood a good chance of eventually reaching Spirit Sea.

(End of Chapter)

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